Camestros Felapton

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Category: Stuff

  • Let’s watch War Machine

    Me: Good evening one and all, tonight I will be watching the film “War Machine” with my cat, Timothy. Timothy: Hi. I love going to the cinema. Me: I also love going to the cinema but unfortunately we have been banned from every cinema in the county – even the small independent art-house cinema which…

  • Sad, Rabid, Trump

    Sad, Rabid, Trump

    It’s a premise of this blog that there are no neat category but also that scruffy, unkempt categories are still of value. We can reject the essentialism of categories but still make use of them as a means of organising a complex world into simpler shapes, like a cartoonist constructing characters from intersecting ovals. By…

  • The Timothy T. Cat Presidential Library

    Library, ballroom and scratching post – this multifunctional building is a monument to the towering intellect of its namesake and a celebration of Western Culture™ with its subtle blend of classical styles. It will be built as an annex to Felapton Towers, replacing the area currently used as a novelty mini-golf course.

  • Rating an absence of AI

    How little is a website, a book, a fanzine, a blog, etc., using LLMs and other generative services? This has been coming up a lot in different contexts, and it is also clear that people mean different things when they say they don’t use AI. For example, I can honestly say I don’t use AI…

  • My TV Reboot Proposal

    There was a lot of excited talk about both a new Firefly show and a Buffy the Vampire Slayer update. In the end, the new Buffy went nowhere, and Firefly is a proposed animated show. Meanwhile, two older shows that are often touted as potential reboots are Babylon 5 and the even more venerable Blake’s…

  • RF:Ph03:Ch55: The Ship Who Sang

    Robots carry themes with them that are present in the text, whether the author acknowledges them or not. In particular, the themes of slavery and servitude run through stories with robots regardless of the attitude of the author or the attention they give to them. These themes can apply to fictional cyborgs as well, because…

  • Far-from-the-edge cases

    Back in 2025, I posted a list of science fiction edge cases, narratives in various media that were either science fiction (but which might be something else) or things not normally regarded as science fiction, but which have some elements. An extreme example (suggested in the comments) is the TV show Breaking Bad, which is…

  • Timothy reviews Moby Dick

    Cats like fish, but cats don’t like water. When you are a famous writer, like myself, you recognise things like this about the world. We call this “conflict”, a word that combines two ideas “con” and “flict”. All great fiction must have its fair share of both con and flict in equal measure of approximately…

  • The Categorical Timperative

    Cats can be so demanding. You think you can stand up to them harassing you but in the end, you cave. In my case, the cat saw the cover that Vox Day was using on his latest cover (features a classic style bust, but the head looks vaguely like Day if he had hair). So…

  • Weird Traffic 2

    Over a week ago, I wrote about the weird stats my website was reporting. I posted some graphs that showed, for example, a high amount of traffic on February 6. Here’s how the monthly traffic looked up to Feb 23: That February 6 bump now looks relatively small, but I stopped the graph intentionally at…

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